Half of new hospitals promised by Boris Johnson will not be built for decades
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/17/half-new-hospitals-promised-boris-johnson-not-be-built-for-decades?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Half of new hospitals promised by Boris Johnson will not be built for decades
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/17/half-new-hospitals-promised-boris-johnson-not-be-built-for-decades?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Posted by riseoftheph0enix
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I’m more surprised that any hospitals he promised are being built lmao
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You don’t need the last two words of that sentence.
“[…]promised by Boris Johnson[…]” now there’s a worthless phrase if ever there was one.
When Boris made this promise, people correctly assumed it wouldn’t happen. Not enough people asked why so many hospitals needed building in the first place.
The answer is that the Tories had failed to adequately fund capital investment in the NHS for years and years. Result: the NHS is still trying to run with outdated buildings, equipment and IT – which is inefficient, and comes with inflated maintenance costs.
It’s one of the reasons why the UK spends more of its GDP annually on healthcare now than it did 20 years ago but achieves a far worse service. Anyone with a basic grasp of economics would have predicted it, but the Tories kept “austerity” going anyway.
Always makes me laugh, don’t have enough staff to fill our current hospitals but they want to build more.
It’s all very well building new hospitals but where do they plan to find the staff to run them
They don’t invest into the nhs workforce so it’s not really an attractive prospect for most people to want to get into , the pay certainly does not match the job , I’m a nurse and I wishes I’d have trained to become a train driver instead of studying for 5yrs !!
What everyone but the most ignorant in society knew all along.
What a national disgrace that he got voted into power.
In other news on No Shit Sherlock TV, bears do crap in the woods, and the Pope is Catholic.
He’s a chancer ans a grafter for sure but no less than 3 PMs have had the chance to cancel, change or deprioritise these hospitals.
If Truss, Sunak or Starmer wanted them prioritised, they would have been.
You mean he’ll say he’ll build hospitals. But build non and do nothing to help them get built. But when they eventually get built by someone else. They’ll count as his plans because he announced it first? Wow. Great leader
Absolutely not, absolutely not,” Mr Johnson replied. “I have never tried to deceive the public and I’ve always tried to be absolutely frank.”
But simply how many people in this country would still be stupid enough to vote Tory?
If only they had a spare anual couple of billion pounds that they weren’t spending abroad….
Massive con artist he and his assistant rishi the foreign agent should be behind bars.
Total crooks
So BoJo promised something he couldn’t deliver. Again.
I’m shocked people, simply shocked.
Wild how people in this thread are just completely ignoring a global pandemic shutting everything down for several years and wrecking our economy.
Starmer has a £22bn black hole and this sub defends him to death. Boris had a £400bn global crisis and he gets nothing. I get that he sullied his record with partygate and other scandals, but come on.
> Wes Streeting, the health secretary, will blame the Conservatives for bequeathing Labour a huge infrastructure project that was budgeted only until this March and for which costs have soared to an estimated £30bn.
Seems like a fair criticism.
“Were it not for the woke tofu small boats blob, they’d all have been up and running already.”
No way! I feel so betrayed. And I traded my brexit vote for this???
/s
Oh no, did the Tories lie AGAIN??? Can’t wait to hear how this is Labours fault.
The other half were just upgrades or added wards to existing ones